hi, I am using seminar together with texpower. When I display a slide with an itemize environment stepwise it happens that text that was already set jumps up. The reason probably is that my heading makro and itemize have flexible sizes: \def\slideitemsep{.8ex minus .2ex} \newcommand{\heading}[1]{% \begin{center} \sffamily\bfseries\large \shadowbox{#1}% \end{center} \vspace{1ex minus 1ex}} When the slide gets full things are set in a different way. Another problem is the use of vfill. Depending on what is on the slide vfill produces different things. \begin\begin{slide} \heading{\hypertarget{why-syntax-t}{Why Syntax?}} \vfill \begin{itemize} \item Signs: form meaning pairs \citep{Saussure15} \item Language $\stackrel{?}{=}$ list of strings \pause \item language is finite if we assume an upper bound for sentence length infinitely many sentences, brain capacity is finite $\to$ we need structure/patterns \pause \item words, phrases, sentences \item meaning of an utterance from meaning of its parts \item syntax: the way the combination takes place, structure \end{itemize} \vfill \end{slide} I tried to put the \vfill into steps, but this didn't help. Is there an easy solution to these problems? Thanks and greetings Stefan -- Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Fürstengraben 30 D-07743 Jena Tel: (+49) (+3641) 9 44 320 http://www.dfki.de/~stefan/ Fax: (+49) (+3641) 9 44 322 http://www.dfki.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/Babajava/